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Movie Review - "Juno" - Mothra 6.9

For rating metrics, see post of May 2, 2007.

Juno is the eponymous main character. She is a marginally weird 16 year old that gets pregnant from having sex in a chair with her boyfriend one day when they are bored. Although he disputes the bored part because he knew that the Blair Witch Project was coming on later and she hadn't seen it since the theaters and therefore couldn't have been bored. Juno decides to have an abortion but decides against it and contracts with a yuppie couple to adopt it when she delivers. The couple then decides to split up. Juno is conflicted. Spoiler alert: it all works out fairly sweetly, in fact, really sweetly. I have seen some really sweet movies lately (see earlier review on "Enchanted").

Ellen Page plays Juno and is very good. She is the smartest and most together (except for the getting pregnant part) of all the characters and has some really good lines. The writing is exceptional. Michael Cera of Arrested Development and Super Bad is the boy friend. He plays the same dork that he always plays. Jason Bateman (Michael's dad in Arrested Development) plays the proposed adoptive father that decides he doesn't want to be a dad in this one. Jennifer Garner ("The Kingdom", "Alias", "Daredevil", etc.) does pretty well as the suburbanite who wants to be a mother but doesn't really know how.

Quirky, funny, bitter sweet, this one is at least worth a rental and certainly a place in the Netflix queue.